Branching and Merging Primer

Chris Birmele is a Developer Tools Technical Specialist in Australia. Back in May, he published an introductory paper on the subject of branching and merging (Branching & Merging Primer), which is now available in MSDN Library Online as a technical article: Branching and Merging Primer. This article is applicable to any version control system that supports branching and merging, such as Team Foundation Server.

An introduction to the concept of software configuration management including information about why configuration management is important, and the various branching and merging strategies.